Uninterested coworkers seems to be the standard 90% of the time where I go. An even worse situation I've found is having an outside consultant with supreme confidence come in and start "educating" you, telling you how things should be done, but unable/unwilling/uninterested to defend his assertions when you show him simple examples proving him incorrect....and he seems to be totally incapable of recognizing his shortcomings.
Add to this, no knowledge whatsoever of sites like hacker news, stackoverflow, etc, and a home development machine that is too slow to run Visual Studio. But of course, the air of confidence (due to his own ignorance) earns him immediate respect from management. Now that is a depressing situation.
Knowledge of the existence of stackoverflow is now my ultimate litmus test, I try to sneak it into the conversation as soon as possible - if the person has never heard of it, that's a pretty good indicator of how much of the say is hot air.
Not sure I agree with the stackoverflow test. Good knowledge & practices picked up before and during stackoverflow's existence aren't invalidated by not following certain online communities or the Atwood train. The test is probably more applicable if they are younger and/or work in a popular space.
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Uninterested coworkers seems to be the standard 90% of the time where I go. An even worse situation I've found is having an outside consultant with supreme confidence come in and start "educating" you, telling you how things should be done, but unable/unwilling/uninterested to defend his assertions when you show him simple examples proving him incorrect....and he seems to be totally incapable of recognizing his shortcomings.
Add to this, no knowledge whatsoever of sites like hacker news, stackoverflow, etc, and a home development machine that is too slow to run Visual Studio. But of course, the air of confidence (due to his own ignorance) earns him immediate respect from management. Now that is a depressing situation.
Knowledge of the existence of stackoverflow is now my ultimate litmus test, I try to sneak it into the conversation as soon as possible - if the person has never heard of it, that's a pretty good indicator of how much of the say is hot air.
Not sure I agree with the stackoverflow test. Good knowledge & practices picked up before and during stackoverflow's existence aren't invalidated by not following certain online communities or the Atwood train. The test is probably more applicable if they are younger and/or work in a popular space.